FILM
M'NET'S THIRD NEW DIRECTIONS
M-Net short films produced this year will be broadcast during July and early August on Friday's at 19h30. The result
of the third New Directions season, the films are said to challenge viewers with four divergent contemporary South
African themes delivered honestly and somewhat candidly.
New Directions
offers novice film-makers a vehicle to exhibit their script-writing and directing skills.
New Directions
was created in 1993 when four short films were produced during the first season.
The 1994 second season produced another three films.
Directed by award-winning actor Patrick Shai and written by Soweto talent Harvey Chochoe, Stray
Bullet is the first film broadcast by M-Net on July 13.
University of California graduate Jeremy Handler directed Durban lecturer Ajay Hurbans' script, The
Return. Filmed in Stanger, the all-Durban cast is headed by Thaira Syed, Jack Devnerain, Robin Singh and Suria Govender.
The Return is scheduled for July 20.
Alexander Sudheim scripted and another UCLA graduate, Andrew Worsdale, directed Stimulation
(July 26) which gives a risque reflection of today's adolescent experiences.
Angel
is the final film of the 1996 season on August 6. Scriptwriter Daryn Leigh Jose sketches the
relationship between two bergies (Daniel Samaai and Sylvia Esau). The film aims to be poignant and entertaining
with colourful, authentic dialogue and dark humour.
NEW SA FEATURE FILM
Principal photography on the feature film Fools commenced last month. Directed by first-time South
African filmmaker Ramadan Suleman, the story is set in Charterston Township in 1990.
Fools
has been adapted for screen from Njabulo Ndebele's short story by Bhekizizwe Peterson, writer
and senior lecturer in African literature at the University of Witwatersrand, and Ramadan Suleman. Heading the all-South African
cast are Patrick Shai and Ken Gampu, both seen in Cecil John Rhodes with Dambisa Kente and Vusi Kunene (both
seen in Cry, the Beloved Country) and Hlomla Dandale.
This Southern African/French film produced by Pedro Pimenta in associa-tion with M-Net and the SABC, will be
shot in and around Johannesburg and Soweto over a nine-week period by a South African crew.
FREE FILMS
The Durban Municipal Library offers regular free lunch-hour film shows in the Museum Theatre (JS Steele Audito-
rium) on the first floor of the City Hall:
July 2 (13h05): World at War Part 5: Barbarosa June-December 1941.
July 9 (13h05): Trials of Life: Finding Food: Part 3 - a natural history of animal behaviour by David
Atten-borough.
July 16 (13h00): Itzhak Perlman & Eugene Ormandy with the Philadelphia Orchestra - playing the
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D and Romeo and Juliet.
July 23 (12h45): The RAF Story ... from Camel to Spitfire.
July 30 (12h45): Sea Trek - underwater broadcast that unravels the mysteries of the ocean.
For more details phone Deena Nair on 37-6246.